Touching moment WW2 evacuee, 91, meets long-lost family after discovering dad's awful secret
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThis is the touching moment a 91-year-old wartime evacuee met her long-lost nieces after learning her dad had lied about her mother’s death.
Jean George’s last memory of mum Alice is of being told aged seven to look after little sister Joan as they were moved from Salford at the start of the Second World War.
She was heartbroken when dad George, who served as RAF ground crew, sent a message through her hosts saying Alice had died and she believed for eight decades it had been in a bombing raid on their home.
But Jean now knows her dad lied after her mum got pregnant with another man’s child. READ MORE: Grinning thug poses for selfies outside court after he's spared jail for stabbing stranger in Piccadilly Gardens READ MORE: 'I won't be surprised to see you again' - Judge's shocking message to rapist as he walks free And after a TV show tracked down her nieces – Dawn Draisey, 54, from Manchester, and Cheryl Bardsley, 56, who lives in Canada – The Mirror got the trio together for the first time at Jean’s Gloucester home on Friday.
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